Kugelis

Category: Vegetable and fruit dishes
Kitchen: lithuanian
Kugelis

Ingredients

Potatoes 450 g
Egg 1 PC.
Smoked lard (or not smoked, or fatty meat) 50 g
Bulb onions 1-2 pcs.
Cottage cheese 50 g
Garlic 1 clove
Bitter pepper taste
Sour cream more, in gravy or serving

Cooking method

  • Kugelis (ploksteinis boulevard - potato grandma) is a casserole made from grated potatoes, another variation of pancakes, only less fatty.
  • Grate the potatoes on the finest grater. Here I break the Lithuanian canons a little: I rub a couple of cloves of garlic on this grater. Stir in the egg and cottage cheese, season with salt and pepper. Some housewives here add soda or a little baking powder on the tip of a knife, but I like it when the kugelis is denser, cottage cheese will give it enough looseness.
  • Cut lard (ideally smoked) into not too small pieces, smaller onions. Fry the bacon, add the onion, brown.
  • Further, two options are possible: either put all the bacon with onions directly hot into the grated potatoes, or put only half there, and prepare the gravy from the rest.
  • Put the resulting mass in a layer of 4-5 cm in a small form - preferably non-stick or silicone, smooth and bake in the oven or airfryer for 40 minutes at medium temperature.
  • My father hid good pieces of chicken inside the potato layer, and also pieces of smoked meat; there were also other additives, even sausages; in Lithuania, it is most often cooked with small pig legs or with pieces of uncooked smoked ham.
  • Gravy: pour the sour cream into the fried bacon with onions and warm it up a little, preventing the sour cream from cutting off.
  • If you don't want gravy, kugelis is eaten with sour cream.

The dish is designed for

600 g

Time for preparing:

1 hour

Cooking program:

Stove, airfryer or multicooker "Baking". I also cooked in the microwave.

Note

Of course, I read the post by MariV "Potato Granny". Our recipes vary a little; I hope she will allow me to share the laurels.

Natalishka
Tatyana, delicious recipe. Gotta cook
Sveta Vishenka
For kugelis, my husband heats the oven for a long time in order to preheat the oven oven - kugelis in it turns out to be incredibly tasty and fragrant. It takes longer to cook in the oven, but it's worth it.
TATbRHA
Your spouse is just smart!
Marika33
TATbRHA, bookmarked the recipe, thanks! I will definitely cook with young potatoes.
TATbRHA
That's just from the young, something worse. The old one is needed for this dish: it contains more starch, the kugelis is denser. If the old one remains - ideal, here is the best, tasty place for it.
Marika33
And I always remove the extra juice when I cook shingles and herons (everyone loves from raw potatoes).
The potatoes are still old, but now the post is on ...
TATbRHA
Cepelin - yes, they squeeze the juice. Dranikov (in Lithuania) - no. And they don't wring out the kugelis either.
Yes, Petrov post. (It's always interesting to me, but on Christmas fast people don't celebrate New Year? ..). You can cook without lard, but, of course, it won't be as tasty ...
Marika33
Quote: TATbRHA
It's always interesting to me, but on Christmas fast people don't celebrate the New Year? ..
we are not. And we don't consider it a new year.
Today I cooked kugelis, my daughter came from Lithuania, they were treated to them there, she cooked and I remembered, otherwise all hands did not reach.
I liked everyone, my husband and three grandchildren, me too. The children did not understand that there were potatoes.
I mixed it with minced turkey, added smoked sausage (from Lithuanian game made at a meat processing plant, well, very tasty, real), turkey skins, we have homemade. Poured on top with cheese, egg and sour cream, all homemade. I will cook some more.





Kugelis
TATbRHA
marika33, well, very beautiful !! Want Want...
Marika33
TATbRHA, yes, tasty, satisfying and not a heavy dish. I had minced meat with zucchini, I didn't add it on purpose, the rest was from cutlets. And the daughter said that Lithuanians add zucchini to kugelis.
Not hot is also tasty.
TATbRHA
Yes, I love him so much that words cannot convey! Both hot and cold ... My dad cooked it well. I still sleep in the morning, and he wakes me up: "Get up, kugelis is baking!" Mush does not like potatoes in any form, even in borscht and soup, even fried and mashed potatoes, so it rarely happens to me to cook Lithuanian dishes. For myself alone - laziness ... It is necessary to somehow change the approach, probably.
Marika33
My husband also does not like potatoes, I replace it with zucchini, pumpkin, where possible, but sorcerers, dranniki, now kugelis, it's a pleasure.

Although in Lithuania potatoes are a priority, and he is Lithuanian

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